The Living Wild

Discover a world with more life in it.

The Living Wild is a wildlife expansion for Minecraft, built around a simple idea: discovering an animal should be more than seeing a new model pass by. Each creature should bring its character to the world, so exploration stays interesting and the wilderness feels inhabited.

The roster is 123 species, currently in three habitats. The ocean holds reef fish, sharks, whales, jellyfish, octopuses, and the life of the seafloor. Rivers, lakes, and wetlands hold bass, gar, turtles, otters, beavers, alligators, and the birds that fish and nest along the bank. Grasslands, forests, and savannas hold bison, deer, songbirds, hawks, and the insects of the grass, from butterflies by day to fireflies in groups after dark. Many species have their own color forms. Common animals fill a habitat, and rarer ones reward the player who keeps looking. Spawns follow the biome, so a plains herd, a reef school, and a swamp hunter do not all turn up in the same stretch of world.

A wilderness worth paying attention to

Animals keep to the places they belong, and they act like they live there. Fish school. Whales and manatees surface to breathe. Crocodilians hunt, including one another. Herons and ospreys fish. Beavers and other amphibious animals climb out of the water and walk. Songbirds come to a bird feeder, hummingbirds to a nectar feeder, and squirrels will raid the seed. Herds graze and bolt together. Predators take smaller prey, including some of Minecraft’s own animals. Adults can pair on their own when their kind is not already crowded, and many can also be bred by hand. An insect net catches butterflies, dragonflies, and the rest of the small insects.

Creatures have their own voices. Most calls are real field recordings of the species, adding to the realism and ambience of the world around you. 

The project focuses on distinctive behavior, real habitat differences, and interactions that give a creature a place in the world.

Requires GeckoLib. 

Look closer. Wander further. Discover The Living Wild.

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Future planned expansions include:

• Artic species
• Forest species
• Rainforest species
• Alpine species
• Desert species
• More insect species
• Unique ways to interact with the species in the modpack, similar to the birdhouse, nectar feeder, and bug net currently implemented. 
• Guidebook
• More complex behavior and interactions between modpack species
• Integrations with major biome mods, season mods, etc.

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This is built as the spiritual successor to Algaecraft (2012-2016) – originally authored by Azaka7 the idea and concept was originally formulated by drunkfailure/harmsway and executed by him. It brought ships, sponges, seaweed, coral, lobsters and ocean-exploration to MC far before Mojang ever took interest in improvements. The Living Wild’s purpose is to carry on that legacy in the new era, where many improvements have been made to the wilds but the world doesn’t feel alive like our world does.